Open Cirrus Summit 2011

Open Cirrus Summit 2011

The 6th International Event
October 12-13, 2011, Atlanta, Georgia
Hosted by the Center for Experimental Research
in Computer Systems (CERCS) at
Georgia Tech

opencirrus.org

Day 1: Open Cirrus Summit
Wednesday, Oct. 12
Location:
Klaus Advanced Computing Building 1116
266 Ferst Drive, NW, Atlanta 30332-0765

8:30-9:00AM Breakfast and Registration

9:00-10:00AM Opening Session

Welcome and CERCS Introduction, Karsten Schwan, CERCS

Open Cirrus Overview, Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs

10:00-10:20AM Break

10:20-12:00PM SESSION I
Chair: Ada Gavrilovska

Distributed, Robust Auto-Scaling Policies for Power Management in Compute Intensive Server Farms, Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Ram Raghunathan and Michael Kozuch (CMU/Intel Labs) (slides)
The Application and Practice of Parallel Cloud Computing in ISP, Zhilan Huang, Guoliang Yang and Shengyong Ding (China Telecom) (slides)
Globally Distributed BookPrep, Dejan Milojicic, Shariff Dudekula, Susanth Puthanveedu and Prakash Reddy (HP Labs US/India)
PIC: Partitioned Iterative Convergence Library for Cloud Computing Environments, Reza Farivar and Roy Campbell (UIUC)

12:00-1:30PM Lunch

1:30-3:00PM SESSION II (Invited Talks)
Chair: Dejan Milojicic

Towards the Design of Dependable Systems of Cloud Components, Jose Fortes, University of Florida
Expanding the Horizons of Cloud Computing Beyond the Data Center, Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota (slides)
VMware's Cloud Initiative, Steve Strassmann, VMware (slides)

3:00-3:30PM Break

3:30-5:00PM SESSION III (Invited Talks)
Chair: Michael Kozuch

YCSB++: Benchmarking and Performance Debugging Advanced Features in Scalable Table Stores, Swapnil V. Patil, Carnegie Mellon University (slides)
Building an Outsourcing Ecosystem for Science, Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory (slides)
Importance of Experiments in Characterizing Data Center Thermal Environments, Yogandra Joshi, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech

5:00-5:30PM Lightning Round

5:30-6:30PM Visit to CEETHERM Green Datacenter Facility
Hosts: Pramod Kumar and Yogendra Joshi

7:00-9:00PM Open Cirrus Reception and Dinner
Location: Georgia Tech Hotel

Day 2: Open Cirrus Summit
Thursday, Oct. 13
Location:
Klaus Advanced Computing Building 1116
266 Ferst Drive, NW, Atlanta 30332-0765

8:30-9:00AM Breakfast and Registration

9:00-10:00AM Opening Session

Georgia Tech Introduction, Ron Hutchins, CTO, Georgia Tech

Intel Science and Technology Center on Cloud Computing (ISTC-CC), Greg Ganger, CMU

10:00-10:20AM Break

10:20-12:00PM SESSION IV
Chair: Michael Kozuch

Running Interactive Perception Applications on OpenCirrus, Qian Zhu, Nezih Yigitbasi and Padmanabhan Pillai (Accenture/TUDelft/Intel Labs)
Evaluation of HPC Applications on Cloud, Abhishek Gupta and Dejan Milojicic (HP Labs/UIUC) best student paper (slides)
An Open Job Scheduling Service for Large-Scale Data Processing, Zhenghua Xue, Jianhui Li, Yuanchun Zhou, Yang Zhang and Geng Sheng, (CNIC) (slides)
Using Active NVRAM for Cloud I/O, Sudarsun Kannan, Dejan Milojicic, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Hasan Abbasi and Vanish Talwar (GT/HP Labs/ORNL)

12:00-1:30PM Lunch

1:30-3:00PM SESSION V (Invited Talks)
Chair: Karsten Schwan

Raining Compute Environments on Resources by Application Users, Gregor von Lazewski, Indiana University
Visualization of High-throughput 3D Correlative Fluorescence-Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy Image Data Challenges, Eduardo Rosa Molinar, Univ. of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras
Hadoop Acceleration with Scalable Merging Algorithms, Weikuan Yu, Auburn University (slides)

3:00-3:20PM Break

3:20-4:50PM SESSION VI
Chair: Ada Gavrilovska

Monitoring as a Service in the Cloud, Shicong Meng, Georgia Tech (slides)
Variations in Performance and Scalability when Migrating n-Tier Applications to Different Clouds, Deepal Jayasinghe, Georgia Tech (slides)
Low Memory Map-Reduce, Hrishikesh Amur, Georgia Tech and CMU (slides)
Effectively Using Amazon Web Services, Hobin Yoon, Adobe and Georgia Tech (slides)

4:50-5:00PM Closing Remarks

Open Cirrus attendees are invited to the CERCS Industry Advisory Board events. Please register accodingly if you are planning to attend.
See the IAB agenda for more information.

8:30-9:00AM	Breakfast and Registration
9:00-10:00AM	Opening Session Welcome and CERCS Introduction, Karsten Schwan, CERCS Open Cirrus Overview, Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs
10:00-10:20AM	Break
10:20-12:00PM	SESSION I Chair: Ada Gavrilovska Distributed, Robust Auto-Scaling Policies for Power Management in Compute Intensive Server Farms, Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Ram Raghunathan and Michael Kozuch (CMU/Intel Labs) (slides) The Application and Practice of Parallel Cloud Computing in ISP, Zhilan Huang, Guoliang Yang and Shengyong Ding (China Telecom) (slides) Globally Distributed BookPrep, Dejan Milojicic, Shariff Dudekula, Susanth Puthanveedu and Prakash Reddy (HP Labs US/India) PIC: Partitioned Iterative Convergence Library for Cloud Computing Environments, Reza Farivar and Roy Campbell (UIUC)
12:00-1:30PM	Lunch
1:30-3:00PM	SESSION II (Invited Talks) Chair: Dejan Milojicic Towards the Design of Dependable Systems of Cloud Components, Jose Fortes, University of Florida Expanding the Horizons of Cloud Computing Beyond the Data Center, Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota (slides) VMware's Cloud Initiative, Steve Strassmann, VMware (slides)
3:00-3:30PM	Break
3:30-5:00PM	SESSION III (Invited Talks) Chair: Michael Kozuch YCSB++: Benchmarking and Performance Debugging Advanced Features in Scalable Table Stores, Swapnil V. Patil, Carnegie Mellon University (slides) Building an Outsourcing Ecosystem for Science, Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory (slides) Importance of Experiments in Characterizing Data Center Thermal Environments, Yogandra Joshi, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech
5:00-5:30PM	Lightning Round
5:30-6:30PM	Visit to CEETHERM Green Datacenter Facility Hosts: Pramod Kumar and Yogendra Joshi
7:00-9:00PM	Open Cirrus Reception and Dinner Location: Georgia Tech Hotel